#theLIST: October 2014 Hot List

How well be spending our weekends, megabytes, and pocket change this month.

How we'll be spending our weekends, megabytes, and pocket change this month.

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1) 40 YEARS OF BLONDIE

1) 40 YEARS OF BLONDIE

“We think a lot alike,” says legendary Blondie front woman Debbie Harry of her longtime band mate and friend, Chris Stein. “He’s not really concerned with stereotypical beauty. I think he’s interested in the whole sort of attitude and mood of a shot. And he always shoots full frames.” Harry has Stein’s photography on her mind because to celebrate 40 years since the band’s beginnings, Stein teamed up with Rizzoli to publish Chris Stein/Negative: Me, Blondie, and the Advent of Punk, a book of personal photos.

Courtesy Rizzoli

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2) LENA DUNHAM’S NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL

2) LENA DUNHAM’S NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL

Lena Dunham’s long-awaited book of essays arrives in Not That Kind of Girl, yet another decoration proclaiming the Girls creator to be the cheeky, feminist voice of her generation (or a cheeky feminist voice of a generation).

1) 40 YEARS OF BLONDIE

“We think a lot alike,” says legendary Blondie front woman Debbie Harry of her longtime band mate and friend, Chris Stein. “He’s not really concerned with stereotypical beauty. I think he’s interested in the whole sort of attitude and mood of a shot. And he always shoots full frames.” Harry has Stein’s photography on her mind because to celebrate 40 years since the band’s beginnings, Stein teamed up with Rizzoli to publish Chris Stein/Negative: Me, Blondie, and the Advent of Punk, a book of personal photos.

Courtesy Rizzoli

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2) LENA DUNHAM’S NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL

Lena Dunham’s long-awaited book of essays arrives in Not That Kind of Girl, yet another decoration proclaiming the Girls creator to be the cheeky, feminist voice of her generation (or a cheeky feminist voice of a generation).

Courtesy photo

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3) GONE GIRL

We have great expectations for David Fincher’s Gone Girl, in part because we’ve been talking about it since last year and in part because Gillian Flynn’s thriller mystery really is that good. The film, starring Rosamund Pike, Ben Affleck, and Neil Patrick Harris, opens October 3 and is sure to be killer.

Merrick Morton

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4) GET CLASSICAL

The pop-up classical concert series that introduces old music to new ears, finds a semi-permanent home this season. In addition to a standalone event at New York’s India House on October 14 featuring music, art, and film by Roman Rabinovich, Michael Brown, and Nick Canellakis, Get Classical will host a monthly salon at Zinc Bar, kicking off with a cabaret performance by the spirited Adrienne Haan on October 5.

Courtesy photo

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5) READ THIS: SPOILED BRATS

Simon Rich imagines the inner monologue of a classroom hamster and other riotous stories in his latest collection, Spoiled Brats, out October 14. The former SNL writer has authored other yuk-worthy gems, including Ant Farm and The Last Girlfriend on Earth, but Spoiled Brats just might be the funniest book of the year.

6) JESSIE WARE: TOUGH LOVE

7) FOR THE COFFEE TABLE: LIVE THE ART

If one new tome lands on your coffee table this season, make it Live the Art, a hefty, sculptural overview of the artists and projects that filled the walls of megadealer Jeffrey Deitch’s now-defunct SoHo gallery. From 1996 to 2010, when Deitch left Deitch Projects to become director of LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the project space was the epicenter of New York’s progressive art world and gave rise to names like Cecily Brown, Vanessa Beecroft, and Lera Auerbach. Embedded in the book is a tableau by Beecroft that originally appeared in Bazaar’s September 2000 issue. Deitch, along with a number of his artists including Yoko Ono, posed for the shot, which he calls an “artwork in the form of a magazine spread.”

Courtesy Bazaar

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8) EGON SCHIELE AT THE NEUE GALERIE

The breadth of Austrain artist Egon Schiele’s portraiture – a vast oeuvre produced within a single decade before his premature death at the age of 28 – is laid out in an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, opening October 9.

Courtesy Neue Galerie

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9) NEW MUSIC BY WEEZER

There are certain bands whose music induces nostalgia even the first time you hear it. For us, that’s Weezer. Everything Will Be Alright In the End, proclaims their latest album, out October 7, and if history’s any indication, expect it to be an aural expression of what’s going on in Rivers Cuomo’s head (which, in pictorial form, looks like the above).

Courtesy Weezer

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10) WAYNE THIEBAUD AT ACQUAVELLA

At age 93, Wayne Thiebaud is a pop art legend. Beginning October 1, 49 of his colorful works rendering the everyday delectable will be on view in a solo show at Acquavella Galleries.